A Puppet’s Guide to Self-Care, 2022

Geng’s single channel video pairs her hand-sewn fabric puppets with the insights and narrations of family and friends, to offer a visual meditation on self-care. Using the loose structure of a maintenance manual and a steadily rising and falling breath as a reoccurring backdrop, the video explores the symbiotic relationship between human and puppet as caregivers, companions and mirrors to one another. Sprinkled throughout the film, multi-generational voices from the artist’s close communities - fellow adoptees, artists, family and friends - offer their own approaches and struggles with this topic to create a warm collective narration. Puppet Guide to Human Self-Care doesn’t purport to offer all the answers but instead suggests that the question of care is one that we can all benefit from ruminating on.

Nieve Falls, 2021

Nieve Falls is an ongoing multi-channel video installation featuring Geng’s fabric puppet and a medley of familiar, familial and friendly voices narrating and reflecting upon the puppet’s contemplative moment amidst the snowfall in the earlier days of the pandemic. The below video is channel one. Click on to play.